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Diabetes Symbol Resources

Widgit Symbols designed to support the
Alphabet Strategy
Diabetes Sheets

People living with diabetes need to learn how to manage
their diabetes and much education involves the use of materials
which require literacy. The use of symbols has found to be
effective, particularly for those with learning, literacy
or language difficulties. There are people with diabetes
in all these groups. We have developed symbols for concepts
and words related to diabetes, in order that diabetes materials
might be presented using symbols, for the benefit of people
who live with diabetes but have difficulties in reading.

The materials comprise laminated A4 sheets each covering specific diabetes issues related to the letters of the alphabet A to G. For example, for A the issue is advice, for B it is blood pressure, for F it is feet.

The symbols were developed in partnership with
Warwick University, Warwick Diabetes Care Research User Group
and the George Eliot Diabetes Care Team.
The Alphabet Strategy was originally devised by the George Eliot
Diabetes Care Team